The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, Images, and Performance by Twycross Meg; Carpenter Sarah; King Pamela & Sarah Carpenter & Pamela King

Author:Twycross, Meg; Carpenter, Sarah; King, Pamela & Sarah Carpenter & Pamela King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

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if I coulde suspecte any suche thinge to growe by owre Playes, I would be the first that should hate them, and deteste my selfe, for gyvinge suche occasion … I haue byn often moved by owre Playes to laughter, and somtyme to teares, but I cannot accuse eyther my selfe, or any other of any suche beastly thought styrred vp by them.

MS CCC 352 p. 56

It is a delicate business: I was conscious of it even though I was rehearsing undergraduates presumably old enough to know what they were doing in a play which could hardly be described as inflammatory. I also felt happier that I was a woman acting as it were as a consultant on the customs of an exotic tribe and therefore to a certain extent distanced emotionally from my actors, rather than a man, where I think it could have become dangerously weighted.

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